How in the world do I analyze these trace files I have numerous XMLfiles in the wireless folder under tracing which contain mostly config info and I need to find out what info is in the log files which are in the .etl format. How do I read these?

Hi, How did you capture the tracing? Have you tried the following steps? 1. Run CMD as administrator. 2. Enter the following commands, press Enter after each line. netsh ras set tracing * enable netsh wlan set tracing mode=yes 3. After the issue occurs, Enter the following commands, press Enter after each line. netsh wlan set tracing mode=no netsh ras set tracing * disable After you finish the above steps, the log is saved in %SystemRoot%\tracing. In the folder "trace" every .etl files have been extracted to text file, the file name is the same as its .etl file. Therefore, we do not need to open the .etl files, just read the text files. The information in the files diagnosticsEventLog.etl and WirelessAutocfgEventLog.etl in %SystemRoot%\tracing are included the xml file "report". We just need to analyze the xml file. Hope it helps.

I captured them as you said but in the traces folder I only have .etl files and in temp there are only xml files I can then process the etl files with the tracerpt -summarycommand (which gives you a txt file)but the info is not what I am looking for. and I am not getting an xml file called report anywhere. I do however get the required data I just found out if I use the tracerpt -o option as this gives you a dumpfile in xml format with the required info in it. Thanks, maybe this info can help someone as well Stu